Van Oord has accomplished the set up of all foundations and inter-array cables at Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm within the German sector of the Baltic Sea.
The heavy-lift set up vessel Svanen put in the ultimate monopile in September and the corporate has now put all of the transition items (TPs) in place. The TPs had been put in in two campaigns with Van Oord utilising Spliethoff’s Brouwersgracht and Jumbo’s Fairplayer vessels to carry out the work.
Moreover, Van Oord, utilizing its cable-laying vessel Nexus, has additionally accomplished the set up of the inter-array cables that began in October.
The corporate’s remotely-operated trencher Dig-It buried the inter-array cables to the required depth and the termination and testing works on the inter-array cables at the moment are in full swing, and are anticipated to be accomplished within the first quarter of 2024.
The Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm will comprise 50 Vestas 9.5 MW wind generators, put in on monopile foundations, and can be linked to the German high-voltage grid through the Ostwind 2 grid connection.
Scheduled to be absolutely operational by the top of 2024, the 476 MW wind farm will provide roughly 475,000 households with renewable vitality whereas decreasing CO2 emissions by roughly 800,000 tonnes per yr.
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